RECURSIVE IIFE SOLUTION :DDDDD

@wallhackio What is IIFE?

@vaporeon_ a special javascript syntax that lets you declare and execute a function simultaneously :DDDDD

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ i mean, any language that has lambdas can do that really

@aescling @vaporeon_ how would I do it in python?

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ apparently you cannot because python sucks ass

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ HOWEVER:

@lambda _:_()
def _some_iife():
    ...

does immediately get applied, somehow. apparently. i have not tested this

@aescling @vaporeon_ what the fuck

@aescling @vaporeon_ why are there parenthesis after @lambda _:_()?

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ ​

@aescling @vaporeon_ oh because it's calling _some_iffe

the pattern

my_func = decorator(my_func)

where you replace a function with a the return value of another function, is equivalent to

@decorator
def my_func():
print('my_func')


So we could define an decorator iife:

def iife(x):
x()

And use it like so:

@iife
def my_func():
print('my_func')


This is fully equivalent to the disgusting evil hack you just shared.

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ does that mean an IIFE decorator implicitly changes a function to None after its definition

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ holy shit it DOES

@aescling @vaporeon_ personally what i would do is

def iife(func):
    func()
    return func

@iife
my_func():
    print('my_func')

So that the original function still exists

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ that defeats the purrpuss of an IIFE

@aescling @vaporeon_ what is wrong with having an iife that is a procedure can use again?